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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 325
To reduce the health risks of heat by establishing the National Integrated
Heat Health Information System within the National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration and the National Integrated Heat Health Informa-
tion System Interagency Committee to improve extreme heat prepared-
ness, planning, and response, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY29, 2025
Mr. M
ARKEY(for himself, Mr. PADILLA, and Mr. GALLEGO) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To reduce the health risks of heat by establishing the Na-
tional Integrated Heat Health Information System within
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
and the National Integrated Heat Health Information
System Interagency Committee to improve extreme heat
preparedness, planning, and response, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coordinated Federal 2
Response to Extreme Heat Act of 2025’’. 3
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 4
In this Act: 5
(1) E
XTREME HEAT .—The term ‘‘extreme 6
heat’’ means heat that substantially exceeds local 7
temperature norms in terms of any combination of 8
the following: 9
(A) Duration. 10
(B) Intensity. 11
(C) Season length. 12
(D) Frequency. 13
(2) H
EAT.—The term ‘‘heat’’ means any com-14
bination of the atmospheric parameters associated 15
with modulating human thermoregulation, such as 16
air temperature, humidity, solar exposure, and wind 17
speed. 18
(3) H
EAT EVENT.—The term ‘‘heat event’’ 19
means an occurrence of extreme heat of 2 days or 20
more that may have heat-health implications. 21
(4) H
EAT-HEALTH.—The term ‘‘heat-health’’ 22
means health effects to humans from heat, during or 23
outside of heat events, including from vulnerability 24
and exposure, or the risk of such effects. 25
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(5) PLANNING.—The term ‘‘planning’’ means 1
activities performed across timescales (including 2
days, weeks, months, years, and decades) with sce-3
nario-based, probabilistic or deterministic informa-4
tion to identify and take actions to proactively miti-5
gate heat-health risks. 6
(6) P
REPAREDNESS.—The term ‘‘preparedness’’ 7
means activities performed across timescales with 8
decision support tools to manage risk in advance of 9
a heat event and increased ambient temperature. 10
(7) T
RIBAL GOVERNMENT .—The term ‘‘Tribal 11
government’’ means the recognized governing body 12
of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, 13
pueblo, village, community, component band, or com-14
ponent reservation, individually identified (including 15
parenthetically) in the list published most recently as 16
of the date of enactment of this Act pursuant to sec-17
tion 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe 18
List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131). 19
SEC. 3. NATIONAL INTEGRATED HEAT HEALTH INFORMA-20
TION SYSTEM INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE. 21
(a) E
STABLISHMENT OF COMMITTEE.—There is es-22
tablished within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 23
Administration an interagency committee, to be known as 24
the ‘‘National Integrated Heat Health Information Sys-25
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tem Interagency Committee’’ (in this section referred to 1
as the ‘‘Committee’’). 2
(b) P
URPOSE.—The Committee shall coordinate 3
agencies represented on the Committee to execute, as ap-4
propriate, activities across such agencies to ensure a 5
united Federal approach to reducing health risks from 6
heat. 7
(c) M
EMBERSHIP.— 8
(1) I
N GENERAL.—In order to carry out and 9
achieve the purpose described in subsection (b), the 10
Committee shall include the following: 11
(A) The Director of the National Inte-12
grated Heat Health Information System. 13
(B) Not fewer than 1 representative from 14
each of the following: 15
(i) From the Department of Com-16
merce, the following: 17
(I) From the National Oceanic 18
and Atmospheric Administration, the 19
following: 20
(aa) The National Weather 21
Service. 22
(bb) The Office of Oceanic 23
and Atmospheric Research. 24
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(cc) The National Environ-1
mental Satellite, Data, and Infor-2
mation Service. 3
(II) The National Institute of 4
Standards and Technology. 5
(III) The Bureau of the Census. 6
(ii) From the Department of Health 7
and Human Services, the following: 8
(I) The Centers for Disease Con-9
trol and Prevention, including the Na-10
tional Institute for Occupational Safe-11
ty and Health. 12
(II) The Office of the Assistant 13
Secretary of Health and Human Serv-14
ices for Preparedness and Response. 15
(III) The Substance Abuse and 16
Mental Health Services Administra-17
tion. 18
(IV) The National Institutes of 19
Health. 20
(V) The Indian Health Service. 21
(iii) From the Department of the In-22
terior, the following: 23
(I) The Bureau of Indian Affairs. 24
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(II) The Bureau of Land Man-1
agement. 2
(III) The National Park Service. 3
(IV) The Office of Hawaiian Re-4
lations. 5
(iv) From the Environmental Protec-6
tion Agency, the following: 7
(I) The Office of Air and Radi-8
ation, if the Administrator of the En-9
vironmental Protection Agency deter-10
mines appropriate. 11
(II) The Office of Research and 12
Development, if the Administrator de-13
termines appropriate. 14
(III) The Office of International 15
and Tribal Affairs. 16
(v) The Federal Emergency Manage-17
ment Agency. 18
(vi) The Department of Defense. 19
(vii) The Department of Agriculture. 20
(viii) The Department of Housing and 21
Urban Development. 22
(ix) The Department of Transpor-23
tation. 24
(x) The Department of Energy. 25
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(xi) The Department of Labor, includ-1
ing the Occupational Safety and Health 2
Administration. 3
(xii) The Department of Veteran Af-4
fairs. 5
(xiii) The Department of Education. 6
(xiv) The Department of State. 7
(xv) The United States Agency for 8
International Development. 9
(xvi) Such other Federal agencies as 10
the Under Secretary of Commerce for 11
Oceans and Atmosphere considers appro-12
priate. 13
(2) S
ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES .—The 14
head of an agency specified in paragraph (1)(B) 15
shall, in appointing representatives of the agency to 16
the Committee, select representatives who have ex-17
pertise in areas relevant to the responsibilities of the 18
Committee, such as weather prediction, health im-19
pacts, behavioral science, public health hazard pre-20
paredness and response, or mental health services. 21
(3) C
O-CHAIRS.— 22
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The members of the 23
Committee shall select 3 individuals from 24
among such members to serve as co-chairs of 25
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the Committee, subject to the approval of the 1
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and 2
Atmosphere. 3
(B) S
ELECTION.— 4
(i) I
NITIAL SELECTION.—Of the co- 5
chairs first selected, one shall be from the 6
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-7
istration, one shall be from the Depart-8
ment of Health and Human Services, and 9
one shall be from the Federal Emergency 10
Management Agency. 11
(ii) S
UBSEQUENT SELECTION .—Sub-12
sequent co-chairs shall be selected from 13
among the members of the Committee, ex-14
cept the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 15
Administration shall have the opportunity 16
to maintain a co-chair position. 17
(C) T
ERMS.—Each co-chair shall serve for 18
a term of not more than 5 years. 19
(D) R
ESPONSIBILITIES OF CO -CHAIRS.— 20
The co-chairs of the Committee shall, in con-21
sultation with the Director of the National Inte-22
grated Heat Health Information System— 23
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(i) determine the agenda of the Com-1
mittee, in consultation with other members 2
of the Committee; 3
(ii) direct the work of the Committee; 4
and 5
(iii) convene meetings of the Com-6
mittee not less frequently than once each 7
fiscal quarter. 8
(d) R
ESPONSIBILITIES OFCOMMITTEE.—The Com-9
mittee shall coordinate an integrated, Federal Govern-10
ment-wide approach to reducing health risks and impacts 11
of heat, including by— 12
(1) developing the strategic plan required by 13
subsection (e); 14
(2) coordinating across Federal agencies on 15
heat-health communication, engagement, research, 16
service delivery, and workforce development; and 17
(3) building capacity and partnerships with 18
Federal and non-Federal entities. 19
(e) S
TRATEGICPLAN.— 20
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after 21
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Committee 22
shall submit to Congress and make available on a 23
public website a 5-year strategic plan that outlines 24
the goals and projects of the Committee, including 25
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how the Committee will improve coordination and in-1
tegration of interagency Federal capacity and capa-2
bilities to address health risks of heat, including— 3
(A) a strategy for improving and coordi-4
nating existing Federal data collection and data 5
management to include sharing of data and sta-6
tistics on heat-related illnesses and mortalities 7
and other impacts to inform heat-related activi-8
ties; 9
(B) a strategy for improving and coordi-10
nating Federal activities to understand user 11
gaps and needs, conduct research, foster inno-12
vative solutions, and provide actionable infor-13
mation and services; and 14
(C) mechanisms for financing heat plan-15
ning and preparedness within such agencies as 16
the Committee considers appropriate. 17
(2) I
MPLEMENTATION.—The head of an agency 18
represented on the Committee may implement the 19
portions of the strategic plan required by paragraph 20
(1) that are relevant to that agency. 21
(3) U
PDATES.—Not later than 5 years after the 22
submission of the strategic plan required by para-23
graph (1), and every 5 years thereafter, the Com-24
mittee shall brief Congress on an update of the plan, 25
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which shall include progress made toward goals out-1
lined in the previous plan and new priorities that 2
emerge. 3
(f) C
ONSULTATION.—In carrying out the responsibil-4
ities of the Committee, the Committee shall consult with 5
relevant— 6
(1) regional, State, Tribal, and local govern-7
ments; 8
(2) international organizations and partners; 9
(3) research institutions; 10
(4) nongovernmental organizations and associa-11
tions; 12
(5) medical experts with expertise in emergency 13
response; and 14
(6) environmental health, economic or business 15
development, or other stakeholders. 16
SEC. 4. NATIONAL INTEGRATED HEAT HEALTH INFORMA-17
TION SYSTEM. 18
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—The Under Secretary of Com-19
merce for Oceans and Atmosphere shall establish within 20
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a 21
system, to be known as the ‘‘National Integrated Heat 22
Health Information System’’ (NIHHIS) (in this section 23
referred to as the ‘‘System’’). 24
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(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the System is to re-1
duce heat-related impacts by— 2
(1) improving the delivery of data, information, 3
forecasts, warnings, predictions, and projections re-4
lated to temperature and extreme heat and related 5
impacts; 6
(2) through the Office of Oceanic and Atmos-7
pheric Research, developing science-based solutions 8
and tools to improve impact-based decision support 9
services for heat impacts to human life, property, 10
and the United States economy; and 11
(3) supporting a research program on heat 12
health, in coordination with the agencies represented 13
on the National Integrated Heat Health Information 14
System Interagency Committee. 15
(c) D
ATAMANAGEMENT.— 16
(1) A
VAILABILITY.—The data and metadata as-17
sociated with the System shall be fully and openly 18
available, within the legal right to redistribute, in ac-19
cordance with chapter 31 of title 44, United States 20
Code (commonly known as the ‘‘Federal Records Act 21
of 1950’’), and the Federal Evidence-Based Policy-22
making Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–435; 132 23
Stat. 5529) and the amendments made by that Act, 24
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to maximize use of such data to support the goals 1
of the System. 2
(2) N
ATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL 3
INFORMATION.— 4
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The Under Secretary of 5
Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere shall 6
manage, maintain, and steward archival data 7
and metadata associated with the System with-8
in the National Centers for Environmental In-9
formation. 10
(B) W
ARNING COORDINATION METEOROLO -11
GIST.—The Under Secretary of Commerce for 12
Oceans and Atmosphere shall designate at least 13
one warning coordination meteorologist, as de-14
scribed in section 405 of the Weather Research 15
and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 (15 16
U.S.C. 8545), at the National Centers for Envi-17
ronmental Information. 18
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 19
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Na-20
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry 21
out sections 3 and 4, including for any administrative 22
costs for the National Integrated Heat Health Information 23
System Interagency Committee and the National Inte-24
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grated Heat Health Information System, $5,000,000 for 1
each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029. 2
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